Ards and North Down Borough Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
ONS register: Local-authority-district·Local authority·Northern Ireland·Bangor
Official UK PPONPTTZ-3295-PYCW
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.
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Notices published in the last 12 months.
Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 51 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.
Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.
53 awarded tenders, 85 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
What they buyi
What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
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What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting11 procedures · 31%45 Construction work7 procedures · 19%98 Other community, social and personal services7 procedures · 19%92 Recreational, cultural and sporting6 procedures · 17%71 Architectural, construction, engineering5 procedures · 14%75 Administration, defence and social security5 procedures · 14%90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental4 procedures · 11%34 Transport equipment and products3 procedures · 8%How they buyi
How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Last 24 months · 36 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
- Contract 97% (35 notices)
- Framework 3% (1 notices)
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Which procedures buyers here use.
Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.
- Open 56% (20 notices)
- Route not published 22% (8 notices)
- Selective 14% (5 notices)
- Direct award 6% (2 notices)
- Limited / restricted 3% (1 notices)
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 51 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How long this buyer takes to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from deadline to first award notice, on this buyer’s own tenders.
Based on 9 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on 37 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.
Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.
Based on 26 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
Who wins herei
Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
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Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records
| Supplier | Procedures | Share | Last 24m | Award records | Last activity |
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| R. HEATRICK LTD | 4 | 7.5% | 1 | 9 | 25 Mar 2025 |
| COMMUNITY ADVICE ARDS AND NORTH DOWN LIMITED | 3 | 5.7% | 3 | 4 | 12 Mar 2026 |
| John McQuillan Contracts Ltd | 3 | 5.7% | 1 | 3 | 3 Apr 2026 |
| KID RAPT LIMITED | 2 | 3.8% | 1 | 21 | 4 Aug 2025 |
| NORTHSIDE GRAPHICS LTD | 2 | 3.8% | 1 | 4 | 1 May 2026 |
| JOHNSTON GILPIN CO | 2 | 3.8% | 1 | 4 | 23 Jan 2025 |
| Boatfolk Marinas Limited | 2 | 3.8% | 1 | 3 | 21 Nov 2025 |
| G P S COLOUR GRAPHICS LTD | 2 | 3.8% | 1 | 2 | 1 May 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 15% of 53 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 85 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.
Middle value of the same awards as the total above.
Largest published awards iThe biggest published awards. Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice. A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check. | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| Contract | Crumlin Road Gaol Ltd | — | — | £25,000,000 † |
| Appointment of an Operator for Bangor Marina and Harbour | Boatfolk Marinas Limited | 21 Nov 2025 | 2.5 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £5,000,000 ≈ £2.0m/yr |
| ANDBC Pre-Qualification Questionnaire - Works Contract for Redevelopment of Ward Park, Bangor | John McQuillan Contracts Ltd | — | — | £2,274,628 † |
| Lot 2 - Southern | Play and Leisure Services Ltd | 19 Mar 2026 | 2 yrs · up to 5.1 yrs | £2,250,000 ≈ £1.1m/yr |
| ANDBC Tender for the Provision of Advice Services | COMMUNITY ADVICE ARDS AND NORTH DOWN LIMITED | 12 Mar 2026 | 2 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £1,469,586 ≈ £735k/yr |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
Published end dates only · 18 of 129 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| 1 | AJCG Ltd, AJCG Ltd | 31 Dec 2026 | £137,484 |
| 1 | Lighthouse N.I. Ltd, Lighthouse N.I. Ltd | 16 Jan 2027 | £225,600 |
| Lot 1. Employers and Public Liability | INTACT INSURANCE IRELAND DAC UK BRANCH | 31 Mar 2027 | £227,761 |
| Lot 2 Crime | INTACT INSURANCE IRELAND DAC UK BRANCH | 31 Mar 2027 | £13,295 |
| Lot 3 Legal Expenses - Councillors Code of Conduct | ARAG LEGAL EXPENSES INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED | 31 Mar 2027 | £1,880 |
| Lot 4. Museum, Fine Art and Exhibitions | Risk Management Partners Ltd | 31 Mar 2027 | £5,238 |
| 1 | ANDERSON SPRATT GROUP LTD, ANDERSON SPRATT GROUP LTD | 5 Nov 2027 | £462,500 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 69 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
Data coverage & method
- Source: Find a Tender OCDS releases; mixed PCR 2015 / Procurement Act 2023 history — no legal-regime label is applied.
- Counts are procedures (one notice family), not lots. Authority cluster = canonical buyer plus beneficiary and procuring-entity roles.
- Published procedure values exist on a minority of notices; their lifetime sum (£187m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 58 award records on 25 procedures (54 to a single canonical supplier, 3 multi-supplier, 1 with no supplier published). 35 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
- Bid counts, deadline-to-award, amendments and award-vs-estimate come from the nightly buyer analytics row; each figure’s own method and sample is behind its , the long form on Methodology.
- Contract end dates: 18 of 129 published contracts carry a period end; 7 end within 18 months, 2 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (4 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
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